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People created "how to" videos to help gamers.

People created "how to" videos to help gamers with The Sims 3 video option

This website provides a huge amount of resources to fans. Not only does it provide blogs and a video board, it includes groups that promote Team Jacob, Team Bella, and Team Edward. The website provides fans with the latest news about the series, including clips from the new movie and the songs that will appear on the Twilight soundtrack. This website will provide insight into the phenomenon of fans creating their own videos and will help me to understand the motivations for the fan remixes.

Find out how to do anything you can think of - people post up their own how-to videos. Can be anything from a professional painter, to anyone who wants to upload a video.

This website deals with remix videos. It allows people to create their own remixes as well as informs them about the laws regulating copyright and remix issues. This is another forum, like YouTube and Creative Commons, that encourages and allows users to interact, recreate, and remix the topic of his or her liking. It will be helpful to my topic by providing yet another example of the fascination and movement toward interacting with a published and copyrighted item. It also helps me to define how remixing videos should be governed.

Summary: American youth are awash in media. They have television sets in their bedrooms, personal computers in their family rooms, and digital music players and cell phones in their backpacks. They spend more time with media than any single activity other than sleeping, with the average American eight- to eighteen-year-old reporting more than six hours of daily media use. The growing phenomenon of "media multitasking"-using several media concurrently-multiplies that figure to eight and a half hours of media exposure daily. Donald Roberts and Ulla Foehr examine how both media use and media exposure vary with demographic factors such as age, race and ethnicity, and household socioeconomic status, and with psychosocial variables such as academic performance and personal adjustment. They note that media exposure begins early, increases until children begin school, drops off briefly, then climbs again to peak at almost eight hours daily among eleven- and twelve-year-olds. Television and video exposure is particularly high among African American youth. Media exposure is negatively related to indicators of socioeconomic status, but that relationship may be diminishing. Media exposure is positively related to risk-taking behaviors and is negatively related to personal adjustment and school performance. Roberts and Foehr also review evidence pointing to the existence of a digital divide-variations in access to personal computers and allied technologies by socioeconomic status and by race and ethnicity. The authors also examine how the recent emergence of digital media such as personal computers, video game consoles, and portable music players, as well as the media multitasking phenomenon they facilitate, has increased young people's exposure to media messages while leaving media use time largely unchanged. Newer media, they point out, are not displacing older media but are being used in concert with them. The authors note which young people are more or less li

You tube is a website where you can find uploaded videos ranging anywhere from concerts, music videos, tv shows, movies, and public uploads.

Web watch What began with high school boredom became a YouTube sensation. Since their posting in May, videos featuring Josh Womack's bat-spinning trick have gone viral. Through Monday, the four clips have received over 4.5 million views. The video shows Womack, a former second-round MLB draft pick who has made it as high as AAA, performing the "Tray Flip," in which he horizontally spins a bat 360 degrees in stride with his swing. Developed in high school batting practice, the trick's success has surprised the outfielder. "Everyone wants to be in the spotlight but I didn't really know how to handle it,

This article deals with the topic of "fair use," which is the copyright doctrine that allows the use of copyrighted works in certain circumstances without having to gain the owner's permission. It also correlated "fair use" with the popular video sharing website YouTube. This source was found through the database Project Muse. It was printed in the University of Texas Press. Its information is credible and useful. As for my project, this article will be helpful in determining if "fair use" applies in connection with fan remix videos of Twilight. Once this is determined, I will be able to better define the creators of these remixes.

I find this video especially interesting because it suggests that Internet users are taking advantage of online anonymity by using their ambiguity to connect with others. The video explains that even if a person's identity remains unknown, other people still seek comfort in knowing that someone else is out there in the world that has had experiences and gone through struggles similar to their own. I think this site relates to my research topic because it shows how almost anyone can become an anonymous online author even if they do not consider themselves a writer. Individuals can send in items such as postcards and post sentences or just words onto a website where other people can read and connect with the material.

Video Search, Don-Wrege--Internet-Author-interviewed-by-Robert-Carl-Cohen This interview took place in 1997, and Wrege talks about many of the incredible changes that the internet has brought about. He discusses multimedia as it first began, then goes into discussing how he uses his column to give people information. Setting up links within his writing and allowing people to respond immediately are just a few things that are seen as average today, but in '97 seem almost ground-breaking because of the way Wrege and his interviewer discuss them.

A particular subject on video games based on "F My Life" but showcased on Collegehumor.com

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This section of YouTube's website deals with all issues of copyright. It provides a help in all manners of copyright, including how to tell if something is copyright protected, how to get permission, and how to provide credit to the original owner of an idea or material. This website will be helpful in my research. Using YouTube's definitions, I can begin to understand how credit and ownership is decided for content and videos. This will also help me to understand the rules for "borrowing" copyrighted material and distinguish what is classified as copyright.

This section of YouTube's website deals with all issues of copyright. It provides a help in all manners of copyright, including how to tell if something is copyright protected, how to get permission, and how to provide credit to the original owner of an idea or material. This website will be helpful in my research. Using YouTube's definitions, I can begin to understand how credit and ownership is decided for content and videos. This will also help me to understand the rules for "borrowing" copyrighted material and distinguish what is classified as copyright.

This article provides a harsh criticism to YouTube, saying that it encroaches upon the "legitimacy and perhaps even survival of forms of vernacular creativity." This source was found through Project Muse and published in the "Cinema Journal." In regards to my project, it will be useful to have an opposing perspective to the videos posted upon YouTube. This perspective will help me to determine my theories and opinions on user-generated remixes and extensions of popular media.

(This may already have been posted by someone else - not sure.) Someone may have an interest in this little video. I don't know if I would use it myself or not. The author of Where the Wild Things Are talks about his story being represented in the movie coming out in October. I also like his thoughts on not talking down to kids, the movie has to "respect kids." Enjoy. :)

Fell in love with this site. Users can create stories using images and text. Compositions are posted for anyone to view. Shockwave and quicktime are used here. Many different facets to this one site as shown in the links at the top of the page such as photos, stories, video, etc.

This master's thesis uses sociological methods to discover why Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series has become such a cult phenomenon. This article is relevant to my project, which focuses on YouTube "remixes" of the popular series. This article will help to explain why such a large portion of the population is attracted to the series. It may also be useful in ascertaining the force that drives the creators of the videos perpetuate their multimedia expressions.

LiveJournal is a website that allows people to write and share their thoughts and feelings. People who use this site are able to share their writings to others or set the privacy settings so only they can see what they wrote. This site allows people to insert photos and videos into their journal too.

Have not had a chance top read, but it seems to be about an alternative way of teaching by the use of video

There are 340,000 video results for Twilight. Some are trailers made by fans in anticipation of the movies, spoofs, remixes, alternate endings - and the most creative - a Twilight puppet show.